1. 1點名

    A roll-call is when someone in charge reads a list of names out loud to check who is there. Teachers do it at the start of class; the army, a fire drill, or a meeting of a club may do it too. Each person answers, often with “here” or “present.” The roll in this word is not bread and not an actor’s part: it is an old name for a list of names, from the days when names were written on a roll of paper. You can take / have / hold the roll-call. It feels official and a little old-fashioned in casual talk — a teacher might just say she’s taking attendance — though actually the noun is still the clear word for the reading-out itself.

    roll-call 是由負責的人把名單上的名字一個個唸出來,確認誰到了。老師在上課一開始通常會點名,軍隊、消防演練或社團聚會也可能這樣做。被唸到的人會回答,常見的是「here」或「present」。

    這裡的 roll 不是麵包,也不是演員的角色,而是名單的舊說法,源自以前名字是寫在一卷紙上的時候。固定搭配有 take、have 或 hold 這幾個動詞,像「take/have/hold the roll-call」,都是點名的意思。這個詞聽起來比較正式,帶一點老派;日常口語裡,老師可能只會說在點名,但若要指點名這件事本身,帶連字號的 roll-call 仍然是最清楚的說法。

組成roll (a list of names) + call (to read them out).

同家族的字

  • rolla list of names, as in electoral roll or honor roll — the same roll as the first half here

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • roll call

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。